Minnesota Landscape Arboretum
On a surprisingly-comfortable June Sunday - 68°F/20°C, sunny, slight breeze, not a cloud in sight - my wife and I visited the Minnesota Landscape Arboretum to spend the afternoon walking…
Random Learnings #3
From the 1933 Pears' Cyclopaedia, Regensburg is the alternative name for Ratisbon. Wikipedia disambiguates Ratisbone as Regensburg and says ...it is still known in the Romance languages as a cognate of its…
Random Learnings #2
A co-worker and his family recently purchased their first home in a new community of new construction, every neighbor is new to everyone else. So far it appears like young…
Meandering Thoughts #3
If The Truman Show was remade in 2023, Christof would need a North Korean-styled version or deny modern technology altogether. A TrumanOS to ensure real-world references are removed? The Great…
Software Shops and Name Recognition
Many engineers envision working for major technology companies: Alphabet (Google), Amazon, Apple, Amazon, Atlassian, EBay, JetBrains, Meta (Facebook), Redhat, Microsoft, Oracle, Salesforce. Sure, you'll be a small fish in a…
Borrow A Booger?
File:Man undergoes a COVID-19 swab test A.jpg" by Navy Medicine is licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Last year, my daughter believed her family had COVID - likely from me - and…
Personalized Code Searches using OpenGrok
Many organizations implement a full-feature code search/intelligence tool - e.g., SourceGraph or Atlassian Fisheye - allowing engineers to search the enterprise code base. Other orgs just use the native search of the hosted version…
Random Learnings #1
In a book I'm currently reading about German broadcasting and its use for propaganda during World War II, I read: The first on-air directive, it seems, was a decree that…
Meandering Thoughts #2
Yes, I understand, it's the Beatles...but how does Run For Your Life get any airplay when social movements like Me Too are raising awareness of violence against women? … Well, I'd…
Understanding Dependencies….Visually!
Show of hands: how many of us truly understand how your build automation tool builds its dependency tree? Now lower your hand if you understand because you work on build…